Did JEB BUSH Just Admit Florida Democrats Are Wimpy, "Unique"?

In Florida, there is a "unique relationship between the Republican and Democratic parties there." Thanks to JEB BUSH for pointing that out.

Our deeply disastrously dysfunctional Democratic Party leaders here are literally in bed with Republicans. Do you know to whom our State Democratic Party Chair is married? (FDP Chair ALISON TANT, a former Tallahassee lobbyist, is married to BARRY RICHARD, lawyer for George W. Bush during Florida recounts, a Tallahassee corporate lawyer and putative "lifelong Democrat").

Statewide, there are 500,000 more Democrats than Republicans, but Democrats are irrelevant in Tallahassee due to gerrymandering under the maladministration of Governor JOHN EDWARD BUSH a/k/a "JEB BUSH," who helped President GEORGE W. BUSH, his brutal brother, steal Florida in the the year 2000 Presidential election. Florida Democrats' litigation strategy failed to demand a statewide recount and failed to focus on 20,000 uncounted African-American votes in Jacksonville, Florida. (They ignored our concerns at the peril of our Nation).

Fanatical Florida Republicans control all but one statewide elected office (U.S. Senator William Nelson is the only statewide elected Democrat.) Democrats have not elected a Governor since 1994.

Foolish FLORI-DUH Democrats' futile last three (3) Governor candidates were:
1. a corporate lawyer (the late WILLIAM McBRIDE, formerly Holland & Knight managing partner),
2. a banker (McBRIDE's wife, ALEX SANK, former President of Bank of America in Florida) and
3. a political chameleon CHARLES CRIST (who was a Republican before he was an Independent before he was a Democrat).
Those are three (3) good reasons Democrats lost -- dodgy "Democrats" who nominate corporate-coddling coots who act like Republicans deserve to be defeated. Again and again and again.

As my late lobbyist friend and mentor, Larry Tucker, often said, "the only difference between" Florida Democrats and Republicans in Tallahassee is that "the Democrats want the money in a paper sack and the Republicans want the money in a briefcase."

'Florida is paradise': Bush nostalgic in New Hampshire campaign appearance
"By Amelia Beamer, University of North Florida"
(B.A., Creative Non-Fiction, University of North Carolina, graduate student at Syracuse University)
(contributed propaganda published without adequate vetting by The St. Augustine Record and Florida Times-Union)
Feb 5, 2016 @ 6:15 pm | updated Fri, Feb 5, 2016 @ 10:21 pm

PITTSFIELD, N.H. | From the day that former Gov. Jeb Bush announced his run for the presidency, he has been citing his eight years as Florida governor as an example of the leadership skills he could bring to Washington.
Touring the Globe Manufacturing plant in southeastern New Hampshire on Thursday morning, Bush met with workers and then gave a speech followed by a Q-and-A session.
Globe Manufacturing creates protective gear for firefighters and is one of the largest employers in the area. Stopping to tour and speak there is a Bush family tradition, as Bush’s father and brother — both former presidents — stopped there on their own campaigns.
After a private tour of the facility, Bush spoke to company employees and fielded questions. While speaking passionately about the many issues facing the nation, Bush turned several times to stories of “his state” of Florida, noting not only his accomplishments, but highlighting the resiliency of the state’s citizens, the Sunshine State’s natural beauty and culture and the unique relationship between the Republican and Democratic parties there.
“Bringing reality to Washington is what I know how to do, because I did it in Tallahassee,” Bush said. “It’s the largest swing state — a purple state, if you will, with half a million more Democrats than Republicans, but we worked together to fix the mess (sic) that existed.”
Addressing a number of national “messes” — the state of Social Security, high tax levels, stagnant job growth, and threats of terror to name a few — Bush wrapped them into a metaphor that all Floridians would understand and appreciate all too well.

“When I was governor, we had eight hurricanes and four tropical storms in 16 months,” he said. “Now, it’s not like a big massive snowstorm, because we don’t do that in Florida. But think about it — eight hurricanes and four tropical storms. Over a million homes were damaged to the point where they couldn’t be inhabited. That’s more homes than exist in New Hampshire. We had people laid off because there was no power for the businesses. We had turmoil. But you didn’t hear about anybody complain about the leadership in Florida.”

Bush’s point was that through preparation and by truly supporting Floridians during times of crisis, he was able to bring the state’s citizens together. He hopes to have the chance to do it on a much larger scale, to take on the multitude of “messes” in the lives of Americans from the Oval Office.

Whether he’ll get that opportunity or not, Bush’s pride in Florida and the work that he accomplished as governor was clear and unmistakable through his speech and the answers he delivered to workers in a factory hundreds of miles from Tallahassee.

When closing, the former governor was asked what the draw was to Florida for so many retirees and transplants. His answer was simple.

“Florida is paradise,” he said. “People are kind to one another. It’s a kind of live-free-or-die kind of state,” linking his comment to the Granite State’s license plate motto.